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Master Greenkeeper John Quinn is the author of Performance Bowling Greens, and several other titles on Greenkeeping, Club and Business Management.

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Bowls Coaches and Umpires we need you!

Calling all bowls Coaches and Umpires

Bowls Central has been delivering greenkeeping and club management advice for 5 years now and we have grown a substantial readership as a result.

Now that the site is established as an online destination for bowlers and clubs looking for help, I’d like to expand the range of advice offered.

In particular I see a need for detailed articles on the following subject areas:

  1. The Rules of the game (all disciplines and federations) and the decisions that are made about these during matches by Umpires.
  2. Coaching techniques and advice for players to help them improve their game and advice on how to deliver effective coaching at club level.

With this in mind, I’d like to ask if you, or any of your friends have experience in either of these fields and would be interested in writing an article, a series of articles or even a regular column for Bowls Central?

I’d like to see this type of help expanded as much as our readership feels it needs to be on Bowls Central so am happy to support you in any way I can to help you deliver advice on these subjects. There is no direct payment available for this work, but depending on the quality and frequency of articles you are able to provide, we can support writers in some or all of the following:

  • Editing and formatting articles for publication
  • Publicising your work through the site, our mailing list and our social media channels
  • Helping you to sell (on bowls central) any services or publications you’ve created that will be of benefit to our readership relating to these subject areas.
  • Help with design, editing, layout and publishing of any longer written works you create on these subjects.

Please feel free to reply with any questions you have about this, or to make a suggestion. I’d also be pleased if you could alert any of your friends or contacts who might be interested.

 

Please reply using the contact form.

 

 

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Bowls green performance and organic matter

Bowls green performance and Organic Matter

Bowls green performance and organic matter go hand in hand. In this article we continue to test our hypothesis about the effect Organic Matter has to bowls green surface performance. John compares the different kinds of organic matter in greens and shows how we can measure these to direct us to a better maintenance regime that focusses on performance and produces healthier greens and greens that are more economical to maintain.

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Objective Measurement of Bowls Green Performance

Objective Measurement of Bowls Green Performance

"Bad rinks", "bad roads on rinks", "straight hands", "off the heads", just some of the multitude of anecdotal evidence for poor bowling green performance. Meantime the real causes of problem greens are not only missed, but are actually being perpetuated by some of the maintenance practice we employ. The Objective Measurement of Bowls Green Performance is long overdue so we can move on and start to work on the real issues.

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Greenkeeping Despair

Greenkeeping despair leading to perpetually bad bowls greens

Greenkeeping despair is a result of bowling clubs being in a continual quest for the perfect green...overnight. This causes clubs to make the most irrational and expensive decisions on greenkeeping and green development. An endless parade of experts with increasingly outlandish claims and products besets clubs up and down the UK. The answer, on the other hand, is grounded in long lost common sense greenkeeping and consistency of approach.

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